Beware the person who won't be bothered with details.
~ William Feather
Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.
If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.
A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.
A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
The way to get ahead is to start now.
Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.
Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.
If you're naturally kind you attract a lot of people you don't like.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
We all find time to do what we really want to do.
Do each daily task the best we can act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us.
Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. ... Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.
A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.
Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.
Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.
The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.
Wealth flows from energy and ideas.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.
An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.
